Re: Fonts when moved from Windows

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tony Waghorn" <tony@kc.com>
> I get an Alert Dialog because of unavailable fonts, I click
> OK and it reformats the fonts, but it always appears when I open
> it.
> It has Times New Roman in it (or another Windows font) but as UNIX
> doesn't have it, I can't replace it.

It depends a little on what your objective is with the Windows font.
On UNIX, you can tell in the console terminal window what font
substitutions that are made in the file. You first have to decide
if these font substitutions are what you want.

If they are what you want, you simply have to check File > Preferences
for the setting "Remember missing font names". Uncheck it to make the
font substitutions permanent when you save the file. (But then you
may encounter the same problem if you open the file in Windows.)

If you want to substitute the fonts with a different font than the
one that FrameMaker suggests, you have to edit the "fontlist" file.
(This file contain font mappings that in Windows are stored in the
maker.ini file.) You can either edit the fontlist file in your FM
installation ($FMHOME/fminit/fontdir/fontlist), or edit a copy of
that file in your home directory ($HOME/fminit/fontdir/fontlist),
depending on what scope you want your edits to take.

This file contains <MapFont> statements for each font mapping.
Your FM installation *should* already contain the mapping
<MapFont < TimesNewRoman > < Times > >
but you can add/change this to some other font.
The syntax and semantics of the fontlist file is quite important,
so you should take care to edit it carefully. I can give you some
advice if you need to take this approach.

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